I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.